The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-01
TEMPERANCE JUBILEE.
Convention of Catholic Total Abstinence So
cieties-A Weeks Celebration.

Phiadelphia Record.
The flower of the Catholic temperance popu-
laton of the United States will be present in
this city next week upon the occasion of the
seventeenth general convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America. About 100
societies will be represented in the United
States and Canada and among the delegates will
be some of the brightest clergymen in the Catho-
lie Church. well some of its most distin-
guished members. The Philadelphia societies
and those attached to this diocesan union have
contributed S., 900 for the entertainment of the
visiting delegates. In addition these societies
will spend as much more for the torchlght pa
rade that will be made in honor of the delegates
on Tuesday night next, when there will be ten
thousand men in line.
The National Union now numbers about 3d.
900 members. OF these there are 5000 in the
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Union, 5000 in the
Scranton Union and 4, 600 throughout the rest of
the State. The Philadelphia Union is one OF the
strongest of the subordinate bodies in the coun-
try, aud will be represented in the convention
by over 100 delegates. The convention will be
composed of 400 delegates The most distant
societies that will have delegates present will be
those at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the North
New Orleans. in the South, and Portland Ore
eon. in the West The Pacific coast societies
will be represented by proxy, as will also be a
society of full blooded Indians in Wisconsin and
one of native Mexcans at Tajique, Mexico The
convention will begin Wednesday morn
ing at the Walnut-street Theater and will
continue during the week. The proceedings
will be devoted principally to the consideration
of how to extend the movement and devise
means to take advantage of the recent letter OF
Pope Leo XIII, sent on March 81 last to Right
Rev. John Ireland, Bishop of St. Paul, Mimi.
in which the Sovereign Pontih earnestly
treats the faithful to join the temperance move
ment. IL addition the convention will take
means to disseminate the views expressed by
the plenary council of Baltimore. which
demned the evils of intemperance, and directed
all priests throughout the country to advise
their flocks to organize temperance societies and
to entreat Catholic liquor dealers to abandon the
business as speedily as possible Among the
noted men who will participate in the conveu-
ton are Rev. Thomas j. Conaty, of Wooster.
Mass formerly treasurer of the Irish National
League of America; Rev. James NJ. Cleary,
president of the union of Kenosha,
Wis; Rev F. c. Weichman, of Indiana; Rev
J. B. Cotter, ex-president of the union; Right
Rev. John J. Keane, Bishop of Richmond. Va,
one of the most earnest mon in the cause in the
Catholic hierarchy in America; the eloquent
New York; the big lumber dealer of the North
west. John OBrien, of Saltwater, Mimi. presi-
dent of the Minnesota Union, who turned the
Irish Catholic vote of Saltwater over to the Re-
publicans and carried the town for high license;
Rev. William Walsh. president of the Univer-
ity of Notre Dame, of Indiana, who is known
throughout the great Northwest; General Master
Workman Terence V. Powderly. who will repre-
sent the Father Matthew Society of Scranton,
and Mr.. Hugh Mccartney. President of the NUM-
cipal Council of Philadelphia and vicepresident
of the Irish National League of America, who
will attend as delegate from st. Michaels So
ciety Of this city.